Sean Michael Kerner

Originally the Linux vendor had planned on deploying a standalone OpenStack product but that plan has now changed. Red Hat is now going to go to market with an all-in-one Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Edition that bundles platform and cloud together. In a video interview with ServerWatch at the Red Summit in Boston, Red […]

One year ago, Red Hat released its first commercial storage product. In an exclusive video interview with InfoStor at the Red Hat Summit, Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Red Hat Storage, details where his business unit is headed. Red Hat Storage is built on top of Gluster, a company that was acquired by Red […]

From the ‘Indemnify Me’ files: In March of 2003, SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM over Unix trade secrets. Ten years later, it’s a legal dispute that is still alive. Groklaw – a site that got its start because of the SCO case – and a site that is still very much alive was […]

One of the biggest areas of improvement in RHEL 7 is likely to be networking services. Rashid Kahn, Senior Engineering Manager for networking services at Red Hat,  joked with the audience at the recent Red Hat Summit event, that from his perspective RHEL 7 is in fact, “all about networking.” One of the major new […]

At the Red Hat Summit last week, Josh Bressers, who heads the Red Hat Product Security Team explained that the security process involves both manual and automated activities for quality assurance. Linux is further reinforced with what Dan Walsh, senior principal software engineer at Red Hat called a “silver bullet” for Linux security — SELinux. […]

The CRS family of routers focus on extreme scale, and the new CRS-X is no exception. One standard 7 ft rack chassis CRS-X deployment can deliver up to 12.8 terabits per second. The system can be clustered together in a massive configuration of up to 72 chassis, which would deliver up to 922 Tbps of […]

Speaking at the opening keynote for the Red Hat Summit last week, CEO Jim Whitehurst stressed that open isn’t just a marketing slogan, it’s the only way that modern IT companies can survive. “Open collaboration is the social technology that underpins our ability to move from client server to the cloud social era of computing,” […]

HAVEn is an acronym that stands for Hadoop, Autonomy Vertica, Enterprise Security and ‘n’ solutions. HP Autonomy IDOL, HP Vertica Analytics Platform, HP ArcSight Logger and HP Operations Manager are the core components of the HAVEn solution. The Hadoop piece of the equation is provided by way of a joint offering with Cloudera, Hortonworks and […]

From the ‘Net New or Just Better than Before?’ files: BOSTON. Innovation is a tough word to define concretely. It really does means different things to different people. Sometimes it is a net new ‘thing’ that moves the ball forward in some way (like electricity). Then there is disruptive innovation – like the first wave […]

From the ‘Purveyors of the TRUTH’ files: BOSTON. This morning I was on a panel at the Red Hat Summit with Scott Merrill from TechCrunch and Jon Brodkin from Ars Technica with moderation from 451 Groups John Abbot. Officially the session was titled, “Hot Off the Press: Top Journalists on Today’s Tech Trends” but it […]

Microsoft is fixing at least 19 vulnerabilities in the cumulative MS13-047 update, though it is missing at least one other public IE vulnerability. “Microsoft is not fixing a recent vulnerability that Tavis Ormandy had alluded to in March and has recently (June 3) published an exploit for on the full-disclosure mailing list,” Wolfgang Kandek, CTO […]

VMware officially announced its new vCenter Log Insight solution this week. Martin Klaus, Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware, explained to ServerWatch that vCenter Log Insight has long been the cornerstone for virtualization operations, and now the platform is being extended for the log analytics domain as well. “Log files are the lingua franca of […]